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o 0) ► o (A O E X o JS u *0 ằ ôã u V ã c N e w Yo r k •a Routledge B O « o London o $5'TtGm i Madi son - ' j o '.12Ot •>]d:.iJQn, Wi 53706-1484 U JA ■• clOl CONTENTS Published in 2002 by Roudedge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 Published in Great Britain by Roudedge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE A c k n o w le d g m e n ts I n t r o d u c t io n Roudedge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group Copyright © 2002 by Roudedge Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ' Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publishing Data PN1991.2.R33 2001 384.54—dc21 RETHINKING RADIO ♦ CHAPTER RADIO IN THE GREAT D EPRESSIO N : PR O M O TIO N A L 21 CULTURE, PUBLIC SERVICE, AND PROPAGANDA Kate Lacey CHAPTER t CRITICAL RECEPTION: PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS 41 DECRY D EPR ESSIO N -E R A RADIO, M A SS CULTURE, AND MODERN AMERICA Bruce Le n th a ll // Radio reader: essays in the cultural history of radio / edited by Michele Hilmes &Jason Loviglio p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-415-92820-6 — ISBN 0-415-92821-4 (pbk.) Radio broadcasting—History I Hilmes, Michele, 1953- II Loviglio, Jason xi M ic h e le Hilmes All rights reserved No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including any photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher All essays are original to the volume excepting Susan Douglas’s, which is a substantially revised ^ chapter from Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos ’n Andy aM Edward R ! Morrrrw to WolfmanJack and Heyward Stem Times Books: 1999, and John Fiske’s, which appear n n m l of American HistiJy 80.1 McRobbie, Angela Feminism and Youth Culture: Fmmfackie toJust Seventeen Boston: Unwin, l“ 99^ T l -T a ^ ‘°""® LW ’ of Higher Education 19 Morley David Television, Audiences, and CuUural Studies London: Routledge 1992 Sn.!!,™ “ """ Urban,: U a p d Hi : „ ciipe Sm^yan, Snszn Sellmg Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting 1922^1934 Washington: Smithsonian Institution P, 1994 | ' Chicago:,U ~ 7 ' T l!^ ^^ Television Studies Book Ed.' Christine , ' ' Geraghty and David Lusted London: Arnold, 1998 63-85 ' Squires, Cathenne R Black Talk Radio: Defining Community Needs and Identity” Harvard InternationalJournal of Press/Politics B.2 (2000): 73-96 ^ '^ c S o m r P ^ m r ' ond Drama by Installment.Norman:U of Rethinking R adio Sterling, Christopher H., and Jo h n M Kitross Stay Tuned: A ConcEe HEtory of American Broadcasting Belmont: Wadsworth 1978 Summers, Harrison B., ed A Thirty-Year HEtory ofPmgrams Carried on National Radio Networks in the United States, 1926-1956 New York: Arno, 1971 Susman, Warren Culture As History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century New York: Pantheon, 1984 Terrace, Vincent Radio’s Golden Years: The Encyclopedia of Radio Programs San Diego: A S Barnes, 1981 Tichi, Cecelia The Electronic Hearth: Creating an American TelevEion Culture New York: Oxford UP, 1991 Torres, Sahsha, ed Living Color: Race and TelevEion in the United States Durham: Duke UP, 1998 Vianello, Robert “The Power Politics of ‘Live’ Television.”/oitniai of Film and Video 37.1 (1985): 26-40 Wall, Tim “The Meanings of Black and Dance Music in Contemporary Music Radio.” British Musicology Conference University of Surrey, England July 1999 Wertheim, A rthur F Radio Comedy New York: Oxford UP, 1979 Zook, Crystal Brent Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television New York: Oxford UP, 1999 19 ... in history, to the victor went the spoils of memory The television networks began to tell their own stories, distancing themselves from their controversial performance during the radio decades... recognize the youth culture Rethinking R adio propelled by the baby boom, young people of all ages and social groups turned to the radio to hear the music that mattered in their lives—even as their... dropped from academic sight in the United States by the late 1970s Industrially, culturally, historiographically, and theoretically, radio had been rendered invisible by the temper of the times Rethinking